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Biography of Félix Fénéon (excerpt)
Félix Fénéon (29 June 1861 at 4:00 AM (source : Joan U. Halperin, "Félix Fénéon, œuvres plus que complètes"), Turin, Italy – 29 February 1944, Châtenay-Malabry) was a Parisian anarchist, journalist and art critic during the late 1800s. He coined the term "Neo-impressionism" in 1886 to identify a group of artists led by Georges Seurat, and ardently promoted them.
Biography of Henry George (excerpt)
Henry George (September 2, 1839 – October 29, 1897) was an American writer, politician and political economist, who was the most influential proponent of the land value tax, also known as the "Single Tax" on land. He inspired the philosophy and economic ideology known as Georgism, which is that everyone owns what they create, but that everything found in nature, most importantly land, belongs equally to all humanity.
Biography of Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (excerpt)
The Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (Leopold George Duncan Albert; 7 April 1853 – 28 March 1884) was a member of the British Royal Family, a son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Leopold was later created the Duke of Albany, Earl of Clarence and Baron Arklow.
Biography of Frederick Delius (excerpt)
Frederick Albert Theodore Delius (January 29, 1862 – June 10, 1934) was an English composer born in Bradford in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the north of England. Life Delius's parents were German. Julius and Elise Pauline Delius had moved from Bielefeld, Germany to England to set themselves up in the woollen business.
Biography of Edmond Laguerre (excerpt)
Edmond Nicolas Laguerre (April 9, 1834, Bar-le-Duc – August 14, 1886, Bar-le-Duc) was a French mathematician, a member of the Académie française (1885). His main works were in the areas of geometry and complex analysis. He also investigated orthogonal polynomials (see Laguerre polynomials).
Biography of Eusapia Palladino (excerpt)
Eusapia Palladino (alternate spelling: Eusapia Paladino; 1854-1918) was a famous Spiritualist medium born in Minervino Murge, Italy. Life and work In her early life, Eusapia Palladino was married to a traveling conjuror. In Italy, France, Germany, Warsaw, Poland, and St. Petersburg, Russia, Palladino was noted to allegedly display extraordinary powers in the dark: levitating and elongating herself, bringing forth flowers, physically materializing the dead, producing spirit hands and faces in wet clay, levitating tables, playing musical instruments under the table without contact, directly communicating with the dead through her spirit guide, John King, etc.
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The Federal city of Bonn is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About 24 km (15 mi) south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region, Germany's largest metropolitan area, with over 11 million inhabitants.
Biography of Albert Lavignac (excerpt)
Albert Lavignac (Paris 22 January 1846 – Paris, 28 May 1916) was a French music scholar, known for his essays on theory, and a minor composer. Lavignac studied with Antoine François Marmontel, François Benoist and Ambroise Thomas at the Conservatoire de Paris where later he taught harmony.
Biography of Paul Gabriel (excerpt)
Paul Gabriel, born July 5, 1828 in Amsterdam, died August 23, 1903, was a Dutch artist and landscape painter.
Biography of Jeanne d'Alcy (excerpt)
Jeanne d'Alcy (20 March 1865 – 14 October 1956) was the earliest French film actress. She was the wife of French cinema pioneer Georges Méliès from 1926 until his death in 1938. She was born Charlotte Lucie Marie Adèle Stephanie Adrienne Faës in Vaujours, Seine-Saint-Denis.
Biography of Charles Garnier (excerpt)
Charles Garnier (6 November 1825 in Paris 5e (birth time source: Didier Geslain, municipal archives) - 3 August 1898) was a French architect, designer of the Palais Garnier and the Opéra de Monte-Carlo. Education Student of Louis-Hippolyte Lebas at the École royale des Beaux-Arts de Paris beginning in 1842, he obtained the Premier Grand Prix de Rome in 1848.
Biography of Carlos I of Portugal (excerpt)
Carlos I (pronounced ; Eng. Charles), the Diplomat (also known as the Martyr) (Port.O Diplomata and o Martirizado) - (Lisbon, September 28, 1863 - Lisbon, February 1, 1908) named Carlos Fernando Luís Maria Victor Miguel Rafael Gabriel Gonzaga Xavier Francisco de Assis José Simão de Bragança Sabóia Bourbon e Saxe-Coburgo-Gota was the 33rd (or 34th or 35th according to some historians) and penultimate King of Portugal and the Algarves.
Biography of George McClellan (excerpt)
George Brinton McClellan (December 3, 1826 – October 29, 1885) was a major general during the American Civil War. He organized the famous Army of the Potomac and served briefly (November 1861 to March 1862) as the general-in-chief of the Union Army.
Biography of August Kekule von Stradonitz (excerpt)
Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz (also August Kekulé) (September 7, 1829 – July 13, 1896) was a German organic chemist. One of the most prominent chemists in Europe from the 1850s until his death, especially in the theoretical realm, he was the principal founder of the theory of chemical structure.
Biography of Calouste Gulbenkian (excerpt)
Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian (1 March 1869 – 20 July 1955) was an Armenian businessman and philanthropist. He played a major role in making the petroleum reserves of the Middle East available to Western development. By the end of his life he had become one of the world's wealthiest individuals and his art acquisitions considered one of the greatest private collections.
Biography of Georges Rouault (excerpt)
Georges Henri Rouault (27 May 1871 – 13 February 1958) was a French Fauvist and Expressionist painter, and printmaker in lithography and etching. Childhood and education Rouault was born in Paris into a poor family. His mother encouraged his love for the arts, and in 1885 the fourteen-year-old Rouault embarked on an apprenticeship as a glass painter and restorer, which lasted until 1890.
Biography of Bangalore S. Rao (excerpt)
Bangalore S. Rao, born February 12, 1856 in Srikakulam, died in March 1937, was an Indian author and professional astrologer.
Biography of Johannes van der Waals (excerpt)
Johannes Diderik van der Waals (23 November 1837 – 8 March 1923) was a Dutch physicist and thermodynamicist famous for his work on an equation of state for gases and liquids. Early years Van der Waals was born in Leiden, Netherlands, to Jacobus van der Waals and Elisabeth van den Burg.
Biography of Edmond Haraucourt (excerpt)
Edmond Haraucourt, born October 18, 1856 in Bourmont, died in 1941 in Paris, was a French writer, composer and poet. Bibliography (extract) L’Âme nue, 1885 Amis, 1887 - Collection "In Extenso" N°17 Seul, roman en vers, 1890 La Passion, pièce évangélique en vers, 1890
Biography of Maxime Weygand (excerpt)
Maxime Weygand (January 21, 1867 - January 28, 1965) was a French military commander in World War I and World War II. Though not as infamous as Philippe Petain, Weygand is remembered for initially fighting the German invasion of France in 1940, then surrendering to and collaborating with the Germans as part of the Vichy France regime.
Biography of Georges Urbain (excerpt)
Georges Urbain (b. 12 April 1872; d. 5 November 1938 in Paris) - French chemist, professor of Sorbona. The discoverer of the element Lutetium, number 71. He discovered it in 1907.
Biography of Ernest Lavisse (excerpt)
Ernest Lavisse (December 17, 1842 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - August 18, 1922) was a French historian. He was born at Le Nouvion-en-Thiérache, Aisne. In 1865 he obtained a fellowship in history, and in 1875 became a doctor of letters; he was appointed maître de conférence (1876) at the école normale supérieure, succeeding Fustel de Coulanges, and then professor of modern history at the Sorbonne (1888), in the place of Henri Wallon.
Biography of Augusta Foss Heindel (excerpt)
Augusta Foss Heindel, born January 27, 1865, was the wife of Max Heindel, born Carl Louis von Grasshoff in Aarhus, Denmark on July 23, 1865 - a Christian occultist, astrologer, and mystic. In 1905, he met Augusta Foss who was also interested along similar lines of research and in astrology; she would become his future wife, August 1910.
Biography of Jean-Jacques Henner (excerpt)
Jean-Jacques Henner (March 5, 1829 - 1905) was a French painter, noted for his use of sfumato in painting religious subjects and nudes. Henner was born at Bernwiller (Alsace). At first a pupil of Drolling and Picot, he entered the École des Beaux Arts in 1848, and took the Prix de Rome with a painting of "Adam and Eve finding the Body of Abel" (1858).
Biography of Eugène Tisserand (agronomist) (excerpt)
Eugène Tisserand, born on May 26, 1830 in Flavigny-sur-Moselle, died in 1925 in Paris, was a French agronomist and author.
Biography of Charles Wagner (excerpt)
Charles Wagner (4 January 1852 Château-Salins (source: Lescaut) – 12 May 1918) was a French reformed pastor whose inspirational writings were influential in shaping reformed theology. Biography At the age of 14, he was sent to Paris to school; was graduated at the Sorbonne in 1869; and studied theology at Strassburg and Göttingen.
Biography of Prince Arthur of Connaught (excerpt)
The Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (Arthur William Patrick Albert; 1 May 1850 – 16 January 1942) was a member of the British Royal Family, a son of Queen Victoria. Arthur served as the Governor General of Canada from 1911 to 1916.
Biography of Jules Léotard (excerpt)
Jules Léotard (French: ; 1 August 1838 (birth time and date source: Didier Geslain) – 17 August 1870) was a revolutionary French acrobatic performer and aerialist who developed the art of trapeze. He also popularised the one-piece gym wear that now bears his name and inspired the 1867 song "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze" sung by George Leybourne.
Biography of Jean Albert Gaudry (excerpt)
Jean Albert Gaudry (September 16, 1827 - November 27, 1908), French geologist and palaeontologist, was born at St Germain-en-Laye, and was educated at the college Stanislas. At the age of twenty-five he made explorations in Cyprus and Greece, residing in the latter country from 1855 to 1860.
Biography of Joseph Babinski (excerpt)
Joseph Jules François Félix Babinski (November 17, 1857, Paris – October 29, 1932, Paris) was a French neurologist of Polish ethnicity. He is best known for his 1896 description of the Babinski sign, a pathological plantar reflex indicative of corticospinal tract damage.
Biography of Henry Morton Stanley (excerpt)
Sir Henry Morton Stanley, GCB, born John Rowlands (June 10, 1840 – May 10, 1904), was a Welsh journalist and explorer famous for his exploration of Africa and his search for David Livingstone. Stanley is often remembered for the words uttered to Livingstone upon finding him: "Dr.
Biography of Luigi Cadorna (excerpt)
Luigi Cadorna (September 4, 1850–December 21, 1928) was an Italian Field Marshal, most famous for being the Commander-in-Chief of the Italian army during the first part of World War I. Born to General Raffaele Cadorna in Verbania Pallanza, Piedmont, after joining the Italian Army in 1868 Cadorna was offered the post of chief of staff for the first time in 1908, which he rejected due to the issue of political control during wartime.
Biography of Jean Gaston Darboux (excerpt)
Jean-Gaston Darboux (August 14, 1842, Nîmes – February 23, 1917, Paris) was a French mathematician. Life Darboux made several important contributions to geometry and mathematical analysis (see linear PDEs for example). He was a biographer of Henri Poincaré and he edited the Selected Works of Joseph Fourier.
Biography of Paul Doumer (excerpt)
Paul Doumer (March 22, 1857 – May 7, 1932) was the President of France from June 13, 1931 until his assassination. Born in Aurillac, in the Cantal département, in France. He was Governor-General of French Indochina from 1897 to 1902. After returning from French Indochina, Doumer served as President of the Chamber of Deputies (a post equivalent to the speaker of parliament) from 1902 to 1905.
Biography of J. P. Morgan Jr. (excerpt)
John Pierpont Morgan, Jr. (September 7, 1867 — September 9, 1943) was an American philanthropist. He was born in Chicago and graduated from Harvard in 1886, where he was a member of Delta Phi and Delta Kappa Epsilon. He was the son of banking tycoon, J.
Biography of Mario Ancona (excerpt)
Mario Ancona (1860-1931) was an Italian baritone, born in Livorno, Tuscany to a Jewish family. A master of bel canto singing, he enjoyed an international reputation as a star of what is commonly referred to as the "Golden Age of Opera".
Biography of Emil Kirdorf (excerpt)
Emil Kirdorf (8 April 1847 (source not archived) - 13 July 1938) was a German industrialist, one of the first important employers in the Ruhr industrial sectors. He was personally awarded by Adolf Hitler the Order of the German Eagle, Nazi Germany's highest distinctions, on his 90th birthday in 1937, for his support to the Nazi Party in the late 1920s.
Biography of George Santayana (excerpt)
George Santayana (December 16, 1863, Madrid – September 26, 1952, Rome), was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. A lifelong Spanish citizen, Santayana was raised and educated in the United States, wrote in English and is generally considered an American man of letters, although, of his nearly 89 years, he spent only 39 in the U.
Biography of Ernestine Schumann-Heink (excerpt)
Ernestine Schumann-Heink (15 June 1861 - 17 November 1936) was a well-known operatic contralto, noted for the great control, tone, beauty, and wide range of her singing. Biography She was born as Tini Rössler to a German-speaking family in the town of Prague, now in the Czech Republic but then part of the Austrian Empire.
Biography of Jules Drach (excerpt)
Jules Drach, born March 13, 1871 in Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, died March 7, 1949 in Cavalaire Sur Mer, was a French mathematician, member of Academie des Sciences.
Biography of Fuad I of Egypt (excerpt)
Fuad I, born Ahmed Fuad, (Arabic: فؤاد الأول Fu'ād al-Awwal), (March 26, 1868 - April 28, 1936), was the Sultan and later King of Egypt and Sudan, Sovereign of Nubia, Kordofan, and Darfur. The ninth ruler of Egypt and Sudan from the Muhammad Ali dynasty, he became Sultan of Egypt and Sudan in 1917, succeeding his elder brother Sultan Husayn Kamil.
Biography of George Robert Sims (excerpt)
George Robert Sims (2 September 1847 (source not archived) - 4 September 1922) was an English journalist, poet, dramatist, novelist and bon vivant. Sims began writing lively humour and satiric pieces for Fun magazine and The Referee, but he was soon concentrating on social reform, particularly the plight of the poor in London's slums.
Biography of Edmond About (excerpt)
Edmond François Valentin About (14 February 1828 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 16 January 1885), was a French novelist, publicist and journalist. Life He was born at Dieuze, in the Moselle département in the Lorraine region of France. In 1848 he entered the École Normale, taking second place in the annual competition for admission in which Hippolyte Taine came first.
Biography of Amedeo Giannini (excerpt)
Amadeo Pietro Giannini (May 6, 1870 – 1949), born in San Jose, California, was the Italian American founder of Bank of America. Giannini's parents were Italian, from Liguria, near Genoa, immigrants to the United States. He attended Heald College, in San Francisco, California.
Biography of Ernest Bichat (excerpt)
Ernest Bichat, born September 17,1845 in Luneville, died in 1905 in Nancy, was a French physicist, teacher and researcher.
Biography of Santiago Ramon y Cajal (excerpt)
Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1 May 1852 – 17 October 1934) was a Spanish histologist, psychologist, and Nobel laureate. His pioneering investigations of the microscopic structure of the brain were original: he was considered by many to be the greatest neuroscientist of all time.
Biography of Lincoln Steffens (excerpt)
Joseph Lincoln Steffens (April 6, 1866 – August 9, 1936) was an American journalist and one of the most famous and influential practitioners of the journalistic style called muckraking. He is also known for his 1921 statement, upon his return from the Soviet Union: "I have been over into the future, and it works.
Biography of Joseph Pulitzer (excerpt)
Joseph Pulitzer (English pronunciation: /ˈpʊlɨtsɚ/ PULL-itser; April 10, 1847–October 29, 1911) was a Hungarian-American publisher best known for posthumously establishing the Pulitzer Prizes and (along with William Randolph Hearst) for originating yellow journalism. Pulitzer was born in Makó, Hungary, the son of Jewish parents Philip Pulitzer, a grain merchant, and Elize Berger.
Biography of R.B. Bennett (excerpt)
Richard Bedford Bennett, 1st Viscount Bennett PC KC (July 3, 1870 – June 26, 1947) was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, politician, and philanthropist. He served as the eleventh Prime Minister of Canada from August 7, 1930 to October 23, 1935, during the worst of the Great Depression years.
Biography of Claude Bragdon (excerpt)
Claude Fayette Bragdon (August 1, 1866–1946) was an American architect, writer, and stage designer. Bragdon was born in Oberlin, Ohio. He was raised in Watertown, Oswego, Dansville and Rochester, New York, where his father worked as a newspaper editor. Bragdon's principal work was in the Rochester area. |
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